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. 2012 Feb 1;19(e1):e157–e161. doi: 10.1136/amiajnl-2011-000329

Table 1.

Specificity, an inverse measure of the chances of mistakenly joining two different patients, decreases quadratically with the size of the data set

Data set size Specificity
2.5 M 99.44%
1.5 M 99.74%
0.5 M 99.89%
10 000 99.99%